Georges K. Benda

Filmes

As Aventuras do Ladrão de Bagdad
Costume Supervisor
O ladrão Karim (Steve Reeves), corajosamente lidera um assalto numa festa celebrada pelo Sultão de Bagdad, em homenagem à visita do Príncipe Osman, fazendo-se passar pelo próprio príncipe. Fugindo, ele se escondendo no quarto da filha do sultão, a Princesa Amina (Giorgia Moll), por quem acaba se apaixonando à primeira vista. Mas o verdadeiro Osman está chegando a cidade para pedir a mão da princesa em casamento, e quando ela o rejeita, o maléfico Vizir real, oferece ao verdadeiro príncipe uma poção que fará a princesa apaixonar-se por ele. Mas a paixão da princesa por Karim é verdadeira, e a poção acaba por deixá-la doente. O sultão lança então uma corrida em busca da rosa mágica que curará a princesa, Karim sai em busca do remédio para finalmente poder casar com sua amada...
The Adventurer of Seville
Costume Design
Bandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract travelers and rob stagecoaches. Because of this, the police chases him as an accomplice of the bandits. Then Figaro decides to join the army as a volunteer to fight in Puerto Rico. He returns covered with glory and his faults are condoned. However, the adventures of Figaro continue in Seville in the false scene of the aristocracy
Koenigsmark
Costume Design
A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess' reader.
The Forbidden Street
Costume Design
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.
Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Costume Design
Um professor parisiense conta a história da famosa avenida de Paris, a Champs-Élysées, desde o seu início em 1617 como estrada cortando a mata traçada por Marie de Médicis até os tempos atuais, passando pelo seu período esplendor burguês sob Napoleão III.
The Chess Player
Costume Design
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
The Lafarge Case
Costume Design
Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husband .
O Amor Nasceu do Ódio
Costume Design
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
Carnival in Flanders
Costume Designer
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic, the brave female citizens decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet. (German version of the French film La Kermesse héroïque, 1935.)
Quermesse Heróica
Costume Designer
Flanders, Monarquia espanhola, 1616. Os habitantes da pequena cidade de Boom estão ocupados organizando as festividades locais anuais quando é anunciada a chegada do Duque de Olivares, que governa o país em nome do Rei Filipe III da Espanha. Enquanto os cidadãos homens covardemente se rendem ao pânico, como ratos em um navio afundado, as corajosas cidadãs, lideradas pela ousada esposa do burgomestre, decidem tornar-se as melhores anfitriãs que os espanhóis já conheceram.
Pension Mimosas
Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father is in jail, into their home. Which makes Louise Noblet all the happier as she can't have children herself. But, after a while, Pierre's father is released from prison and reclaims his son... Time passes and Pierre, now a young adult, lives in Paris more or less on the wrong side of the law. He has a mistress, Nelly, who does not say no to other men's money... Louise, who still loves Pierre as her own son, wants only one thing - to help him get by.
O Milhão
Costume Design
Endividado, um rapaz vende seu casaco, com um bilhete premiado no bolso. Desesperado atrás do bilhete, subirá até em um palco de Ópera.
The Queen's Necklace
Costume Design
Adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel 'The Queen's Necklace' which portrays the Affair of the Diamond Necklace which occurred before the French Revolution.
Figaro
Costume Designer
A silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.